Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-05-18

Teen minutes to a half hour. 1t the
cream is too thick for proper churning
it is thinned with water. He made g.
900 pounds the past year. s'
CREAM FOOD AS MEDICINE.
Persons comsumptively inclined, says
DR.. Arnold, in the New York Tribune,
those with feeble digestion, aged people,
and those inclined to chiliness and
cold extremities, are especially benefit
ed by a liberal use of sweet cream. No
other article of food or medicine will
give them results equally t sfactory,
and either as a food medicine it is not
bad to take. AS an antidote for a tenden-
cyto consumption it acts like a charm,
and serves all the purpose intended to
be served by cod-liver oil with much
certainty and effect. Where sweetcream
can be had cod-liver oil is never needed.
The volatile and easily appropriated
unctuous matter in cream, besides con-
tributing directly by promoting diges-
ton for the same reason and in the
same way that other aromatic and at
tenuated oils aid the digestive function.
While cream has special merits for
certain kinds of invalids, there are no
objection to its use by any or all per-
sons. It is an innocent, palatable, nu-
tritious luxury for everybody at all
times. 1t is one of the special blessings
that serve to beautify the lives of dairy
men which might very properly be used
by them and by all others who produce
milk much more frequently than it is
now, and would, no doubt, meet with a
more liberal use but for the impression
many have that it is an expensive luxury
they can not afford; yet it often happens
that many, who for this reason, restrict
themselves in the use of cream use but
ter, a still more expensive luxury, with
lavish hands. For the most part, but
ter is only a luxury while cream is al
ways a highly nutritious and life sus-
tanning food as well as a luxury: and
hence the more economical of the two.
Somehow the impression seems to pre-
vail with most producers that the n
great and only legitimate end Of milk
and its cream is to make butter, and a
sense of waste and misuse involuntarily
rises whenever either is used for any
other purpose; while, in fact, butter
making is the least useful purpose for
which milk is employed. A moments
reflection ought to make it clear that
cream is more economical and valuable
than butter, since it is equal to both
butter and buttermilk. There is more
fat iu cream than in the butter that is
made from it. Cream never churns
perfectly. A parts of its fat is always
left back in the buttermilk and is lost
unless the buttermilk is also used.
CLOVER AND FERTILITY.
A correspondent writes that he can
readily understand how clover can
bring up nitrogen from the subsoil and
leave it in the large roots near the
surface, but he adds: s'What does Sir
j. B. Lawes mean when he says that,
clover left the soil richer in nitrogen
even after the roots were picked out,
than it was before? If nitrogen is not
furnished by the air, nor pumped up
and left in the roots, Sir John must
wish us to believe that clover creates
nitrogen somehow and kindly leaves it
where we can use it," Not necessarily.
When strong, deep roots take water
from the subsoil in which nitrates are
dissolved more water containing soluble
plant food flows by capillary motion to
take its place. This upward motion Ct
water from beneath is constant, but it
is stronger when plants are drawing
on it from above and keep up this circu-
lation. The clover what it
wants, but the water brings more than
the crop a use and this surplus re-
mains in the soil for the next crop.
Hence it is not impossible that deep
roofing plants help to enrich the sur
face soil simply by their effect of in
creasing the upward flow of water and
with it soluble plant food from be-
meath.
~ TO MAKE DEEP MIXERS.
T. The time when COWS are made and
spoiled is when heifers are approaching
calving with their first calves, and for
six months thereafter. A heifer should
be we'll fed*on nutritious, growing food,
roots, bran and some strong meal, corn,
oats, cotton seed, etc., besides hay and
stalks. She should have daily exercise,
and when she comes to the stall should
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